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Alabama and Georgia are rivals where it counts the most..on the football field.
Bama is 37-25-4 all time vs Georgia.
So what? Georgia is too enlightened to care about college football. Most people there are more interested in their basketball rivalries with the likes of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Boston College.
So what? Georgia is too enlightened to care about college football. Most people there are more interested in their basketball rivalries with the likes of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Boston College.
Yeah sure, tell that to the millions of UGA and Tech fans. Seriously very few care about college basketball in Georgia. Football is king.
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Take away Fulton and DeKalb counties, and the white democrat vote for Georgia by county is a mirror image of Mississippi and Alabama. I must say, I much prefer Chapel Hill to Athens. My wife and I took a trip to Athens a little while back and we were looking for a place to eat downtown, but 9 times out of 10 a place that caught our eye ened up being yet another bar. Much less bar-centric downtown when we visited a Chapel Hill. As for backward politicians, Marvin Griffith made Lestor Maddox look like a progressive. Griffith was the reason the stars and bars were put on the GA flag (to fight desegregation) and made the "by he'll or high water" comment when asked whether he would comply with federal law. And JayJay, where in the Triangle was the vote over 90% Republican and also over 90% for a same sex marriage ban (like southern Fayette County was). Even the most conservative fringes of Johnston County barely break 80%. Factor in places like Appling County and its upwards of 98%!
And Georgia is still worse than Alabama by that standard.
Whoa! Georgia had more lynchings than the Carolinas and Virginia combined (531 vs 361). Clearly, the Black population in Georgia was never the size of the Black population in all 3 of these states put together. Your attempt to sanitize the historical record and say "Well, Georgia was really more like North Carolina" is ridiculous.
All I'm saying is that Georgia and North Carolina are two different states politically. And politics is a lot more substantive than, say, ACC basketball. For all of the bluster on here about Georgia progressivism, the state's non-Hispanic white vote is more conservative than South Carolina's. That pretty much says it all right there.
Yeah sure, tell that to the millions of UGA and Tech fans.
UGA probably won't even be in the SEC in the next few years. It will join up with the ACC or the Big Ten. UGA has more in common with Duke or Michigan than it does Auburn.
UGA probably won't even be in the SEC in the next few years. It will join up with the ACC or the Big Ten. UGA has more in common with Duke or Michigan than it does Auburn.
UGA is a much better fit overall in the SEC than in the ACC, and GA Tech fits in better with the ACC. I seriously doubt that shift will happen.
But GA cares more about college football than college basketball overall anyway...much more like AL than NC in this regard.
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Georgia had more lynchings than the Carolinas and Virginia combined (531 vs 361). Clearly, the Black population in Georgia was never the size of the Black population in all 3 of these states put together. Your attempt to sanitize the historical record and say "Well, Georgia was really more like North Carolina" is ridiculous.
